The Relationship Between Water and the Landscape

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The model that developed in california, for a variety of historical reasons, became the model for the rest of the world. In 19 hundred san diego could have only supported about ten thousand people,. But now there's too many people, and there's too much stress on the resource base. The relationship between us and the landscape and the water landscape is very a dialectic.

As humans, we like to believe that we shape the natural world. But in reality, its laws and patterns have deeply structured our own society. To tell the story of how water has shaped humanity, on the show this week is Giulio Boccaletti, author of Water: A Biography. Check it out at http://factuallypod.com/books Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.